Crossword-Solution: BECCAFICO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Beccafico | n. | A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BECCAFICO”
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| European songbird, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries | 1 answer |
| MIGRANT bird eaten in Italy | 1 answer |
| SMALL migrant bird | 1 answer |
| migrant bird | 1 answer |
| small bird | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BECCAFICO (5)
Among small birds, beyond all doubt, the best is the "beccafico." It becomes at least as fat as the red-throat or the ortolan, and nature has besides given it a slight bitterness, and a peculiar and exquisite perfume, which enables it to fill and delight all the gustatory organs.
The warm southern winds were full of their warbling--beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale,--every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.
This was Monsieur Alcide Mirobolant, formerly Chef of his Highness the Duc de Borodino, of his Eminence Cardinal Beccafico, and at present Chef of the bouche of Sir Clavering, Baronet:—Monsieur Mirobolant’s library, pictures, and piano had arrived previously in charge of the intelligent young Englishman, his aide-de-camp.
The question that will naturally be asked, is--What does he wait for? "He waits for a thrush, an ortolan, a beccafico, a robin-redbreast, or any other feathered and diminutive biped.
The young birds themselves are said to be very delicate food, and not inferior in richness of flavour to the beccafico.